Rebuilding Hope: A Documentary About Southern Sudan August 1, 2010

Rebuilding Hope is a riveting and moving portrait..Jen Marlowe provides an essential, human window into the fagility of Sudan's southern peace." Leslie Lefkow, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch.

One of the speakers is Samuel Garang Akau, a refugee from Southern Sudan, was resettled in the U.S. at age 19. Akau is a 2006 graduate from Stanford University and co-founder and director of New Scholars, a start-up NGO developing youth entrepreneurs and leaders, currently focused on Southern Sudan and Kenya.

Mohamed Suleiman is a Darfuri. His village, Umbarow, was burned and destroyed by the Government of Sudan and Janjaweed. Suleiman lost members of this family to the Darfur genocide: his mother and siblings still reside in Darfur. Suleiman is President of the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition.

Co-sponsored by City Church of San Francisco.

Official Website: http://www.darfursf.org